Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Abu Sufyan Ibn Al-Harith

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The interviewer discusses the importance of the Prophet sallavi Alaihi- saflam's shiny appearance and closest family. They also discuss forgiveness and the importance of forgiveness in modernity. The interviewer provides context for the Prophet's actions, including his actions towards his brother and his actions towards his sister. The interviewer discusses the potential treatments for COVID-19 and the potential for a second wave of the virus to be a global pandemic. They also touch on the potential treatments for COVID-19 and the need for treatments to prevent future pandemics.

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			How's the sound? Can everybody hear me?
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			SubhanAllah. Tonight,
		
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			we are going to be talking about someone
		
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			who the title gives away quite a bit,
		
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			but it probably confuses
		
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			some of you. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's
		
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			brother.
		
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			Now, if I was to tell you
		
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			or to put you in Madinah,
		
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			just a year before the death of the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and you see this man
		
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			from the batch of those that embrace Islam
		
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			late, who of course are known as Atulaka.
		
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			As a group, they're the least praiseworthy
		
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			of the companions of the Prophet
		
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			as a group because of the lateness of
		
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			their Islam.
		
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			But he looks like the Prophet He
		
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			puts his head down. He walks to the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			He enters before everybody else. He leaves after
		
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			everyone else. His eyes are constantly flowing with
		
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			tears.
		
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			And then you ask the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, Who is that?
		
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			And he says, That's my brother.
		
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			It would shock many of you,
		
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			and it even shocked Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha.
		
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			And so we're gonna come back to that
		
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			narration, Insha'Allah Ta'ala,
		
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			to the end. But let's go to the
		
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			beginning
		
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			and in fact, go to the father of
		
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			this man.
		
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			And this man is Abu Sufyan ibn al
		
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			Harith
		
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			but not that Abu Sufyan. So I have
		
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			to keep on like reminding you all because
		
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			even
		
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			the narrators of the books mixed up the
		
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			2 Abu Sufyan frequently.
		
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			Right? The Abu Sufyan that is the most
		
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			famous enemy of the Prophet who we spoke
		
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			about last week, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and
		
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			Abu Sufyan ibn Harith. And multiple times you'll
		
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			find discussions in the books
		
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			of which Abu Sufyan they're talking about because
		
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			it seems to apply more to Abu Sufyan
		
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			ibn Harrif, this person who we're speaking about
		
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			today, but the other Abu Sufyan is so
		
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			much more famous. So let's talk about Abu
		
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			Sufyan ibn al Harith, inshallah ta'ala, and actually
		
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			start with
		
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			his
		
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			father. His name is Abu Sufyan ibn al
		
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			Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			So this is
		
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			as close as it gets to the Prophet
		
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			immediately from the name, you know that this
		
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			is Ibnu Ami Rasulullah
		
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			the paternal first cousin of the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam.
		
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			So he's from Banu Hashim, and he's the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam's first cousin.
		
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			His father, Al Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib
		
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			is the oldest
		
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			son of Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			Okay? Obviously, the Prophet is Muhammad, n Abdullah,
		
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			n Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So between Abdullah,
		
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			the father of the
		
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			Prophet and Harith is a great distance because
		
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			Al Harith is the oldest son of Abdul
		
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			Muttalib.
		
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			And in fact, Abdul Muttalib's
		
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			Kunya was Abul Harith, the father of Al
		
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			Harith. And some of the historians say
		
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			that for a long time, Al Harith was
		
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			actually his only son.
		
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			And I wanna take you back to an
		
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			image
		
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			that some of the books of Sira
		
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			will give you
		
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			to sort of start off the story, and
		
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			it'll come full circle in the end of
		
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			the life of Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith.
		
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			I want you to imagine
		
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			that day that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			caused Abdul Muttalib to see a dream that
		
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			would lead him to a Zamzam.
		
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			And I want you to imagine the sight
		
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			of Abdul Muttalib digging up the well of
		
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			Zamzam, and the only child he has with
		
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			him is the son of his Alharif, who's
		
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			digging away alongside him and throwing the dirt
		
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			to the side
		
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			as they're discovering this miracle of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala in the center of Makkah that
		
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			we still benefit from today. That's the father,
		
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			al Harit ibn Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			Let that sin stick with you
		
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			until the very end of the life of
		
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			the man that we're going to be discussing
		
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			today. His father alongside
		
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			his grandfather, who's also the grandfather of the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, digging away and
		
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			finding this precious gem
		
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			of Zamzam.
		
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			He has this son, al Harith ibn Abdul
		
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			Mutaleb has this son
		
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			whose actual name is Al Mughira.
		
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			Al Mughira, Nuharith, ibn Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			Just like Abu Sufyan ibn Harb.
		
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			Does anyone remember, by the way, last week
		
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			what Abu Sufyan ibn Harb's name was?
		
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			Sahar,
		
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			he was he was the rock.
		
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			I would have expected some of you guys
		
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			to remember that at least.
		
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			Sahr ibn Harib.
		
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			Abu Sufyan ibn Harith
		
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			is Mughira, al Mughira, ibn al Harif technically,
		
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			and Abu Sufyan is the nickname
		
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			of this man.
		
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			So who is he and
		
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			how does he become so close to the
		
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			Prophet SAW, and then so distant
		
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			to where we don't even hear about him
		
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			most of the time when we speak about
		
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			him. And even those that were closest to
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Madinah had
		
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			never even heard of this man who was
		
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			such
		
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			a crucial part of his childhood.
		
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			As Abu Sufyanam al Harif, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
		
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			and Mughira Al Harif
		
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			is said to be born in the same
		
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			year or around the same year as the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So first and foremost,
		
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			he's his paternal
		
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			cousin
		
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			and of course, in that society,
		
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			Ibnu'am is as close as a brother. Right?
		
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			They say that alam, the paternal uncle is
		
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			like your father.
		
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			Right? And so the son of your paternal
		
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			uncle is like your brother. If Nu'am is
		
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			as close as you get in that society
		
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			beyond your actual blood brother. So you start
		
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			with that. He's his actual
		
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			first cousin, paternal first cousin from Banu Hashim,
		
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			from his own family.
		
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			Secondly,
		
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			on top of that, he was nursed at
		
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			the same time as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam by the most famous woman who nursed
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. What was her
		
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			name?
		
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			You can trust your knowledge. It's okay. Some
		
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			of you murmured it and you were afraid.
		
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			Who is the most famous wet nurse of
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
		
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			Halima Sadia Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha. Halima
		
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			nurses the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and at the same time will nurse
		
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			the first cousin of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam,
		
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			Abu Sufyanam al Harith alongside.
		
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			Hence, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abu
		
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			Sufyanam al Harith are also brothers.
		
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			Right? They're brothers through that nursing. So first
		
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			cousin,
		
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			his brother.
		
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			On top of that,
		
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			he marries
		
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			the sister
		
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			of Ali ibn Abi Talib
		
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			Jamana
		
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			Bint Abu Talib.
		
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			He marries the sister of Ali,
		
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			so the daughter of Abu Talib
		
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			as well, bringing him even closer to the
		
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			Prophet because we know the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam's closeness to Abu Talib and
		
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			Abu Talib will become like a father figure
		
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			to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			And so he marries into the family of
		
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			Abu Talib, bringing him a step closer to
		
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			the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So first cousin,
		
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			his brother through nursing, he marries Jumana
		
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			bint Abi Talib,
		
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			and they would have a son named Jafar,
		
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			by the way, not the same as Jafar
		
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			ibn Abi Talib, the famous Ja'far
		
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			And on top of that,
		
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			he looked
		
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			stunningly like the Prophet
		
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			So his actual physical Shaba' of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			was absolutely
		
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			striking. And SubhanAllah, you find that those that
		
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			were described as having the greatest shaba, the
		
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			greatest physical appearance of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam, first and foremost, Ibrahim alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and Ibrahim Alaihi Salam
		
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			resembled each other
		
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			almost exactly to the point that when the
		
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			Prophet even saw him, the Messenger of Allah
		
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			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was struck by his appearance
		
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			on the night of Al Asra wal Marabs.
		
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			So the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			resembles
		
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			his grandfather.
		
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			The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam resembles or rather
		
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			who resembles the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam amongst
		
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			the companions? Jafar ibn Abi Talib
		
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			Jafar
		
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			looks so much like the Messenger of Allah
		
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			And then you have Uthnar ibn Affam
		
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			who also had a great resemblance of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			even though he wasn't from his direct family.
		
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			And in Madinah, you had Mus'ab ibn Umayr
		
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			who resembled the Messenger of Allah and of
		
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			course, as one of the wisdoms and one
		
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			of the reasons why the mushrikeen
		
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			fought that they had killed the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam in the Battle of Uhud because
		
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			they killed Mus'ab
		
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			or they saw Mus'ab fall. And so those
		
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			that saw Mus'ab fall, fought that for a
		
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			moment, they saw the Prophet
		
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			fall. And then finally,
		
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			the Messenger of Allah SAW Allahu Alaihi Wasallam's
		
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			own grandson,
		
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			Al
		
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			Hassan Ibn Ali
		
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			resembled the Prophet SAW Allahu Alaihi Wasallam the
		
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			most. Add to that list this 6th name
		
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			of al Sufyan al Haraf, the brother
		
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			of the same age
		
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			that resembled the prophet the most. So much
		
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			so that they said that when he was
		
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			in a sham,
		
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			when he went to greater Syria, and it
		
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			could be on the same journey that the
		
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			prophet
		
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			went because the Prophet went with Abu Talib,
		
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			that when they would see Abu Sufyan ibn
		
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			al Harith, they would immediately say that this
		
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			is his cousin, this is his brother because
		
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			he looks exactly like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. So imagine now,
		
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			first cousin. I'm gonna emphasize these for a
		
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			reason.
		
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			First cousin, brother,
		
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			married into the family of the person who
		
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			is like the father to the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Looks exactly like the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. Add to that now, him and the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam were connected at
		
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			the hip growing up.
		
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			They were closest friends.
		
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			They loved one another.
		
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			They used to gift one another.
		
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			They attended each other's weddings. Like, I mean,
		
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			you go through and you just think about
		
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			the Messenger of Allah sallaihi wa sallam and
		
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			his quality of silatulrahim
		
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			of upholding the ties of kinship, and you
		
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			imagine how he must have treated this man
		
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			and what their relationship is like. They used
		
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			to bring gifts to one another from their
		
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			journeys.
		
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			So all of the things that are expected
		
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			between blood brothers,
		
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			you find it between the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam and this man Abu Sufyan ad
		
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			Din Harif.
		
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			On top of that, he's known for his
		
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			eloquence. And the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, of course, was beautifully eloquent.
		
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			And Abu Sufyan al Harif
		
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			was extremely eloquent.
		
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			He's also known for his manners.
		
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			I mean, people rub off on each other.
		
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			So he has excellent manners. Of course, no
		
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			one to the extent of the Messenger of
		
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			Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, even in Jahiliyah, but
		
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			he has excellent manners.
		
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			To go on,
		
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			he's someone who used to author poetry,
		
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			where he would speak about the beauty of
		
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			tribes and the beauty of lofty personalities.
		
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			So he was a shahad. He was a
		
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			poet.
		
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			And his poetry
		
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			was extolling the Arabs, speaking about the best
		
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			qualities of the tribes of the Arabs, and
		
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			speaking about the best qualities of some of
		
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			the noble people in Mecca at that time.
		
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			So you have a picture in your mind
		
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			about what their lives are like in Mecca,
		
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			and you're probably thinking to yourself, how come
		
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			I never heard of this man? And you're
		
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			not alone.
		
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			Because as soon as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam receives the message of
		
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			he was expecting that of the first people
		
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			to embrace him and support him would be
		
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			this man.
		
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			He was expecting Alaihi Salatu Wasallam that his
		
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			brother whom he showed nothing but goodness, nothing
		
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			but the best of character,
		
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			would be the first person to recognize in
		
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			him, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam,
		
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			what others were recognizing of him, alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam. He was expecting that he'd have his
		
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			support,
		
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			and it deeply devastates the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam
		
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			that when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam calls
		
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			Banu Hashim Abu Sufyanid, then Harith turns his
		
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			back on him and all of that love
		
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			becomes hatred.
		
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			He completely flips on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			And by the way,
		
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			you know, when you think about that initial
		
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			conversation of the Prophet and Warak ibn Nawfal,
		
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			when Warakah says, your people will run you
		
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			out, and the Prophet
		
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			doesn't you know, he's like, my people will
		
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			run me out. He's talking about Ahl Mecca
		
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			as a whole, the people of Mecca as
		
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			a whole. The people he least expects it
		
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			from, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, are the people that
		
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			are closest to him, his own family. Right?
		
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			Like no way Banu Hashim
		
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			would run me out. Banu Hashim would reject
		
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			me. My uncles, my cousins, my aunts, they'd
		
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			reject me. Remember, Abu Lahab
		
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			was so close to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's 2
		
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			daughters are engaged to his 2 sons. They
		
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			share a wall like they are deeply embedded
		
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			together in this family of Benuhasim.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is expecting
		
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			Abu Lahab to help him. He's expecting Abu
		
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			Lahab to say, I've got you. You know,
		
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			we've got too many connections at this point
		
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			to where even if Abu Lahab would have
		
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			been skeptical of the message of the Prophet
		
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			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, you are my nephew, of
		
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			course. You're my neighbor, my nephew, in laws.
		
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			I mean it doesn't get tighter than that.
		
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			But Abu Lahab of course rejects the Prophet
		
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			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the most bitter way.
		
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			And that causes deep pain to the Messenger
		
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			of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to hear that
		
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			from his uncle Abu Lahab after all that
		
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			he invested
		
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			into that relationship.
		
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			This is another man who has another dynamic
		
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			with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that devastates
		
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			the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And
		
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			I'm telling you from right now, you're going
		
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			to see the pain of the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam in his not speaking about him
		
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			and in his not wanting to look at
		
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			him later on in life.
		
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			That's the human part of the Messenger SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			which is still part of the blessing of
		
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			having his example because even in his pain,
		
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			alayhi salatu wa sallam, he doesn't wrong people,
		
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			but he does feel pain. So Abu Sufyan
		
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			ibn al Harith
		
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			doesn't really understand, subhanAllah,
		
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			the amount of hatred that's consuming his own
		
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			soul
		
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			and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam cannot fathom
		
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			why his brother, why this person who's so
		
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			close to him suddenly flips on him the
		
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			way that he does. And subhanAllah, the scholars
		
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			mentioned that, you know, there are multiple things
		
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			that if you kinda read into the language
		
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			of Abu al Mustafa Anam al Harid, because
		
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			he authors many poems against the Prophet
		
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			But there is envy.
		
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			Right? You and I are kind of brothers.
		
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			We're doing things together
		
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			this whole our whole lives, married at the
		
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			same time, having children at the same time.
		
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			There there is a dynamic here and that
		
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			dynamic is inevitably ruptured by this. Right? Now
		
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			you're a prophet. Right? So if you think
		
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			about sort of the tribal mindset, the tribes
		
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			didn't wanna give a leg up to Benu
		
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			Hashim
		
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			because that means that our tribes will never
		
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			be able to match a tribe with a
		
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			prophet.
		
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			So you're my brother.
		
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			We are equals in society in a way.
		
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			And then now you're a prophet of Allah,
		
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			so it's a lot of envy. It's definitely
		
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			a disruption. It's envy. There's something that's consuming
		
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			his soul of that, but there's also
		
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			this level of you mess things up in
		
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			Mecca
		
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			that you'll start to hear in the language
		
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			of Abu Sufyan. Like why did you bring
		
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			this to us? Everything was good. You had
		
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			everything right. You were the most praised man
		
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			in your society.
		
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			You're married to Khadija
		
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			You just solved one of the greatest disputes
		
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			in the history of our people in Mecca
		
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			with the rebuilding of the cabin, the placing
		
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			of the stone. Everyone loves you. Our family
		
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			is doing well. Why are you visiting this
		
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			pain upon our family? Why are you messing
		
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			things up? And that's a mindset that you
		
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			can think about, like this is really inconvenient,
		
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			and I hate you for messing up our
		
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			setup.
		
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			Like, we were in khair, we were doing
		
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			well, Banu Hashim was doing well, Mecca was
		
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			well. And then you came with this religion
		
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			and it complicated
		
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			everything. So his hatred of the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam was not just one where
		
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			it was being forced. It was a genuine
		
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			hatred that he had of the Messenger of
		
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			Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Genuinely a brother who
		
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			turns his back on the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam is grieving.
		
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			Is grieving.
		
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			Why? Because the same man who he grew
		
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			up with, subhanAllah,
		
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			would not miss a single battle against the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			and was actually the main poet against the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So this is where
		
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			the books kind of get mixed up.
		
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			When you read about the poetry of Abu
		
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			Sufyan
		
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			against the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Mecca,
		
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			it's actually talking about this Abu Sufyan,
		
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			not the famous Abu Sufyan,
		
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			Ibn Harb. This Abu Sufyan ibn Harith
		
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			who did not spare a moment, subhanAllah, as
		
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			the scholars say, he used his tongue and
		
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			he used his sword against the Prophet
		
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			for 20 years
		
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			and did not spare the Messenger of Allah
		
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			SAW, did not spare him the pain
		
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			that would come to him. And then and
		
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			if you kinda read the Messenger of Allah
		
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			how he deals with these relatives of his,
		
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			the Prophet doesn't talk about them. Right? So,
		
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			you know, I did
		
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			subhanAllah Khutba in the old masjid.
		
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			I think it might have been the last
		
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			Khutba,
		
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			where I talked about the brother of Khadija
		
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			who
		
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			they called Shaitan Quresh
		
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			Nafal, who would hurt the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam so much, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			did not wanna come face to face with
		
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			him in battle. Imagine, he loves Khadija so
		
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			much and her brother is trying to kill
		
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			him in Badr. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam avoids these people,
		
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			and he doesn't spend so much time, like
		
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			he's not giving these long lectures in Madinah
		
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			about these people that personally harmed him. And
		
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			some of the scholars say that of the
		
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			wisdom of that as well is that
		
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			there are people that were after the Prophet
		
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			sallAllahu alaihi wasallam personally,
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam was more proportionately, right, towards
		
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			those that were trying to kill the message
		
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			of Islam. You had those that were close
		
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			to the prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and
		
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			that really
		
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			wanted to strike him.
		
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			But there's no doubt that this Abu Sufyan
		
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			ibn Harith was not as damaging to the
		
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			cause of Islam as Abu Sufyanim Al Harbin
		
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			Abu Jahalim. Amr bin Al As at the
		
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			time, Al Khadim Walid.
		
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			But he's a personal,
		
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			you know, brother
		
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			turned enemy of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, and that devastates the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			It'll also give you a little bit more
		
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			context.
		
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			If you remember,
		
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			Hassan ibnuthabit
		
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			When the Prophet
		
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			would tell Hassan al Nuthabit Uhudul Mushrikeen
		
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			banajibreelamaaq
		
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			Respond to the disbelievers because Jibril is with
		
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			you.
		
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			There are literally pages and pages of poetry
		
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			between Hassan and Abu Sufyan,
		
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			this Abu Sufyan, the brother of the Prophet
		
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			where they're sending messages back and forth at
		
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			each other and people are parroting their poetry
		
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			at each other. Imagine that, subhanAllah.
		
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			And here's the context that I want you
		
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			to think about.
		
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			Remember,
		
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			Hassan ibn Thabit's specialty in poetry
		
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			was basically
		
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			shredding you apart,
		
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			shredding apart your tribe. I mean, he talked
		
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			about your parents. He talked about your tribe.
		
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			He talked about your appearance. He talked. He
		
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			had very mean poetry about people. Right? And
		
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			it was justified in certain contexts.
		
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			I remember when Hassan
		
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			said, I've got this, and he wanted to
		
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			respond
		
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			to the mushrikeen, the prophet
		
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			said, but how will you spare me?
		
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			Why?
		
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			You can actually find it in an explicit
		
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			narration
		
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			because if he starts going after the family
		
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			of Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, who's he going
		
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			after?
		
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			He's going after the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			inevitably.
		
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			He's gonna talk about Banu Hashim, he's gonna
		
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			talk about Abdul Muttalib, he's gonna talk
		
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			about you talk about his appearance, he looks
		
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			like the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			You can't attack this man without attacking the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the style of
		
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			hastar al ruthabut
		
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			So that's
		
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			why when the Prophet brought up the concerns
		
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			to him, hasad al Ruthabit said, the very
		
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			famous words that, You Rasulullah, don't worry, I
		
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			will extract you.
		
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			The way that you extract a hair from
		
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			the yeast, like I'll I'll get you out
		
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			of there
		
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			when I when I respond to them. So
		
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			Hassan is like, I'm a master poet. I
		
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			know what I'm doing. And so he would
		
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			attack everything about around
		
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			Sufyan ibn Hadith and Abu Sufyan himself,
		
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			but
		
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			be sure to spare all of the aspects
		
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			that would also imply
		
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			an insult to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And that's the mastery of the poetry of
		
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			Hassan
		
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			So just to give you some more perspective
		
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			because if you were to just read the
		
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			reaction of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to
		
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			Abu Sufyan later on in life, you're like,
		
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			Wow, like, isn't that a little harsh?
		
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			He is the main guy
		
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			that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying,
		
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			respond on behalf. Right? Respond on behalf of
		
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			the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, O
		
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			Hassan. So Hassan's having a reply to him,
		
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			the brother of the messenger of Allah SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, who is authoring poetry about, you
		
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			know, upon poetry upon poetry
		
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			with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So what
		
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			changes?
		
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			He fought the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in
		
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			every battle.
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam never came face to
		
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			face with him in battle.
		
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			He never
		
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			talked to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in
		
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			any of these incidents. Like they never actually
		
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			had a face to face conversation from the
		
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			time that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			announces his prophethood and
		
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			Abu Sufyan
		
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			becomes an enemy to the Messenger of Allah
		
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			SAW Alaihi Wasallam, their relationship is completely fractured.
		
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			So you're talking about, you know, 40 years,
		
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			4 decades together, literally from birth until that
		
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			moment, to 2 decades of not speaking to
		
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			each other,
		
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			and one brother who's constantly aggressing against, you
		
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			know, showing aggression towards the other brother.
		
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			So what's the change here and when do
		
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			you start to see the switch in this
		
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			story? And the turn in this Abu Sufyan,
		
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			ibn al Harith,
		
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			the brother of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			the cousin of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Well, first of all,
		
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			you go to the siblings.
		
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			So
		
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			all of his brothers and his sister embraced
		
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			Islam
		
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			before Fatiha Makkah,
		
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			before the conquest of Makkah.
		
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			So he's gonna be the only one that's
		
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			gonna wait all the way until the end.
		
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			And subhanAllah, his oldest brother Nofal
		
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			Nofal, fought the Prophet
		
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			in Badr,
		
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			was freed as a captive and then became
		
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			Muslim and went back to the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam as a Muslim.
		
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			And some of the scholars say that he's
		
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			the oldest convert in the Sira.
		
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			Like he was so old when he embraced
		
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			Islam that it was like
		
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			he was literally at the brink of death.
		
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			He embraced Islam and that was it. That's
		
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			the oldest brother
		
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			of
		
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			Abu Sufyan ibn al Harith. Then you find
		
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			that he has another brother named Rabi'ah. He
		
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			embraces Islam as well, sometime between that gap
		
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			of Uhud and Fati Makkah.
		
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			He has another brother named Abdi Shams.
		
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			Abdi Shams,
		
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			which of course is a Haram name, who
		
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			comes to the Prophet
		
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			sometime around Hudaybiyah, and he embraces Islam. The
		
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			Prophet changes his name too, Abdullah.
		
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			So you have Nofal, Rabia,
		
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			and now Abdullah, and finally his sister Arwa,
		
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			bint Al Harith embraces Islam. So he's the
		
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			last one out.
		
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			The last one who hasn't embraced Islam from
		
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			all of his siblings.
		
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			On the other side, the children
		
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			of Abu Talib
		
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			are all embracing Islam.
		
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			Right? So you have Talib, Aqeel, obviously, Jafar,
		
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			Ali,
		
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			Umhani,
		
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			Jumana, and Rayta. The children of Abu Talib
		
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			all are embracing Islam, including his own wife
		
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			who's leaning in that direction. She has no
		
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			enmity to the Prophet She knows the goodness
		
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			of the Messenger of Allah
		
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			She can't even understand the enmity of her
		
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			husband to the Prophet
		
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			She doesn't get it.
		
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			This is a very unique relationship between these
		
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			two men,
		
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			between the Messenger of Allah sallaihi wa sallam
		
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			and him. So his own wife, it's, you
		
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			know,
		
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			it's it's unclear when she embraced Islam, but
		
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			she clearly had no say in the affair.
		
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			If she did so privately, jumana bintabitalib,
		
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			or if it was something that, you know,
		
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			was communicated to the Messenger of Allah sallaihi
		
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			wa sallam, but clearly, she doesn't understand why
		
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			her husband is holding out and fighting the
		
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			Prophet so long.
		
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			So now the story comes from Abu Sufyan
		
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			himself.
		
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			He says that it's
		
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			the time of Fatiha Makkah, and basically, the
		
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			last holdouts in Makkah know
		
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			it's over.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan,
		
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			he's saying that I realize as the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam arrives,
		
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			in Al Jura'fah,
		
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			which, subhanAllah, is
		
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			it's actually the valley where Allah promised the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he'd return to Mecca.
		
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			That's actually the valley right outside of Mecca
		
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			where Allah promised the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			that he'll come back to Mecca. He realizes
		
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			when the Prophet
		
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			And he says
		
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			that, you know, I'm kind of looking around
		
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			at the situation,
		
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			and I said,
		
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			Who am I going to accompany?
		
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			And, you know, who am I going to
		
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			be with? I feel trapped.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			so I went to my wife, and I
		
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			went to my son, Jafar. So my wife,
		
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			Jumana,
		
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			and my son, Jafar.
		
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			And,
		
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			I I told to them or I said
		
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			to them that, look, I don't know
		
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			what's gonna happen at this point,
		
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			and I don't know what I'm supposed to
		
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			do. So Jumana responds to him
		
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			and says,
		
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			So you know, his wife even says to
		
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			him like, wake up.
		
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			The Arabs and the non Arabs, the whole
		
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			world is embracing this man, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. And you're the one insisting
		
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			on his enmity,
		
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			and you are you should have been the
		
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			1st person to support the Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. Like his own wife is
		
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			saying to him, what's wrong with you? Why
		
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			are you even waiting till now? Like, even
		
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			the way that you're approaching this whole situation
		
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			is embarrassing. So he's saying that his own
		
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			wife starts to shame him and say,
		
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			what happened to you
		
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			and why did you wait until now?
		
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			And basically, he said that that I was
		
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			just covered in shame. Like his
		
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			wife is saying to him,
		
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			isn't it time for you? Like, why did
		
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			you wait until this moment? Why did you
		
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			put us in this situation
		
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			to where now 20 years later,
		
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			you're of this last batch of people to
		
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			embrace Islam, even after people have embraced the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam far and wide
		
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			from the world. Right? You've got tens of
		
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			thousands of people now Muslim, and here you
		
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			are, his own brother. You should have been
		
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			the first person to do so.
		
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			So he said that I was extremely embarrassed,
		
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			ashamed, and he said, I didn't know how
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was gonna receive
		
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			me. Like, I don't even know how to
		
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			approach this conversation. SubhanAllah, it's very painful,
		
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			when when he even talks about his own
		
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			his own situation here. Like, how do I
		
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			even approach the Prophet
		
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			after having done all of this harm to
		
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			him and after who we were? So he
		
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			said, so I said to my servant,
		
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			you know, let's go ahead to the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and let's
		
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			let's meet him at his tent.
		
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			So he says to him that, you know,
		
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			look, I'm gonna have you go out front
		
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			and I'm gonna wrap my face because I
		
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			don't know if the Prophet is gonna kill
		
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			me or not.
		
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			I don't know if the Prophet is gonna
		
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			kill me or not. I don't know if
		
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			the Prophet is gonna kill me or someone
		
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			else is just gonna see me and kill
		
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			me. Like, there's a lot of bad blood
		
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			here. I've done a lot of harm
		
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			to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And it's not like, you know, he's one
		
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			of the leaders of Quraysh and someone that
		
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			no, it's like, look, this is just a
		
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			really bad personal situation too for what he
		
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			did to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, what
		
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			he did to the Muslims.
		
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			So he said, so I went to the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and I kind of had my face wrapped.
		
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			So he said that, I told my servant
		
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			when we got close to the the encampment,
		
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			let's leave the the camel and let's just
		
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			walk on foot,
		
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			because that way, right, it's it's not going
		
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			to be it's not gonna cause commotion when
		
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			I come in. So I don't wanna cause
		
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			any commotion as I'm entering into the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And it's it represents sort of a spirit
		
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			of humility, right, that I'm not coming to
		
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			fight the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Right? I'm coming to apologize to him. I'm
		
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			coming to embrace
		
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			Islam.
		
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			So he said that I reached
		
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			to the area
		
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			of the tent of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			So he said that I went up to
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			I uncovered
		
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			my face,
		
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			and SubhanAllah,
		
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			he said,
		
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			aawadhaanni biwajihi.
		
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			SubhanAllah. He said, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			looked at me and he turned away,
		
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			Couldn't look at
		
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			me. He said, I went again and I
		
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			looked at the prophet, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and he turned away.
		
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			He wouldn't he wouldn't make eye contact with
		
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			me.
		
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			Here it is. He didn't kill
		
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			him. He didn't harm him.
		
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			But here you are 20 years later.
		
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			Like now, now you're waking up to it,
		
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			like what's wrong with you now? And the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is so hurt by
		
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			him, so he says, he kept on turning
		
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			his face away from me.
		
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			So he said that when the Prophet
		
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			did that, like I tried to look at
		
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			him a few times, I tried to make
		
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			facial,
		
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			I tried to get, you know, eye contact
		
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			with the Prophet SAWS-eleven, I tried to get
		
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			my face to his face, and he keeps
		
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			on turning away from me. He said that
		
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			at that point, I thought to myself, you
		
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			know,
		
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			That, you know, I would remember the Prophet
		
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			SAW, his
		
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			the way he loves his family and the
		
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			honor of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to
		
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			his family
		
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			and his
		
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			mercy and I thought to myself, surely,
		
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			like, I knew that at some point, like,
		
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			it was gonna dawn upon the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam that he would be in so
		
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			much joy that
		
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			Clearly, there's no aggression. There's forgiveness, but
		
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			not now.
		
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			Right? 20 years later and clearly there is
		
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			an opportunism here. Right? And we said this,
		
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			subhanAllah, that this is a complicated batch of
		
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			converts.
		
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			Even Abu Sufyan have been held. Very complicated
		
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			convert.
		
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			Right? Because it's coming to the very end,
		
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			but this is my brother. All that pain
		
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			you caused me.
		
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			So he said that, you know,
		
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			when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam kinda turned
		
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			away from me and he didn't want to
		
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			look at me, right, he didn't want to
		
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			make eye contact with me,
		
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			he said that the Muslims noticed and and
		
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			the way the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam turned
		
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			away from me was very different.
		
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			So the Muslims started to get angry as
		
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			well and annoyed by my presence.
		
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			What are you doing here?
		
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			Like, we we know who you are. You
		
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			know, we know what you did to the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			So he said, so then Abu Bakr
		
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			basically came up to me, and he told
		
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			me to get lost.
		
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			Umar I looked at Umar
		
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			pleading for, you know, some level of sympathy,
		
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			he said, Omar was harsher to me than
		
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			Abu Bakr said, Leave.
		
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			Get out of here. Right? Like again, you're
		
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			gonna be from the Turulaka. We're not gonna
		
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			kill you. You're gonna be forgiven. But all
		
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			this that you did, all this damage that
		
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			you did, leave the gathering.
		
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			And then he said, then one of the
		
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			young Ansar,
		
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			you know, and the Ansar are these youth
		
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			that love the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. I
		
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			mean, he he went off on me. So
		
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			he said, this young Ansari man who I
		
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			didn't even know stood up and he started
		
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			to say everything that he could possibly
		
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			say in the book, and he said, You,
		
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			oh
		
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			enemy of Allah, you are the one who
		
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			hurt the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			You are the one who carried your enmity
		
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			to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from every
		
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			end of the earth.
		
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			And so he said that, I went back
		
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			to my uncle, Al Abba SallAllahu Ta'ala Anhu
		
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			after that. I was like, Wow. Like,
		
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			that was the not the worst case scenario
		
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			because the worst case scenario was death.
		
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			But he knows that he got what he
		
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			deserved. Right? He gave this enmity to the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and the companions loved the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam more than they loved themselves and they
		
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			saw the deep pain of the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, which shows you, SubhanAllah, again, Fatih
		
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			Makkah, there are a lot of dynamics. Right?
		
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			Remember the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam excused Bilal
		
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			and Ammar for how they felt about Abu
		
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			Sufyan ibn Haruf.
		
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			Right? Here,
		
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			there is a level of just human pain
		
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			here. That look, it hurts to look at
		
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			you at this point after everything that you
		
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			did. You're gonna be forgiven, but
		
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			this is this is too much. You've done
		
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			a lot to the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So he goes to Abbas,
		
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			the uncle of the Prophet
		
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			and the uncle, his own uncle, right? Abbas
		
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			ibn Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			And Abbas is a young uncle
		
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			who is closer to being a brother to
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and to Abu
		
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			Sufiyanam al Mahath.
		
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			And he tells Al Abbas what happens, and
		
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			Abbas comes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and
		
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			he pleads with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			on behalf of him
		
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			and on behalf of,
		
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			another man named Abdullah Abu Abu Umayyah.
		
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			Abdullah Abu Umayyah
		
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			is
		
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			is the son of the paternal aunt of
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			He is the one who was standing with
		
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			Abu Jahl, and he was egging on Abu
		
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			Talib to die upon Kufr. Remember, Abu Jahl
		
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			was telling,
		
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			Abu Talib, are you on the religion of
		
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			Muhammad?
		
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			So next to Abu Jahl was this man,
		
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			another cousin of the Prophet named Abdullah ibn
		
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			Abi Umayyah.
		
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			So both of them kind of went to
		
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			Abbas
		
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			because, you know, his mother is Atika bint
		
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			Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			So he's a cousin, and
		
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			here you have Abu Sufyan who's also a
		
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			cousin. He said, Look, can you talk talk
		
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			to the Prophet like this is
		
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			we want to apologize
		
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			for everything that we have done to him.
		
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			So
		
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			Al Abbas comes to the Prophet saying, You
		
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			Rasulullah,
		
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			ibn 'Ammik,
		
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			wabnuammatika,
		
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			your cousin, your paternal cousin
		
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			being,
		
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			you know, Abu Sufyan
		
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			and also Abdullah
		
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			ibn Abi Umayyah,
		
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			wasi ruka.
		
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			And you know, this is your family. And
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			is saying,
		
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			Look,
		
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			they'll be forgiven,
		
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			but I'm not really interested at this point,
		
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			right, and just pretending like none of that
		
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			happened. There has to be some level here
		
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			of acknowledgement.
		
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			And he
		
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			says,
		
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			he said, as for my cousin Abu Sufyan,
		
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			this was the man that attacked my honor
		
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			and as for my other cousin, Abdullah Abu
		
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			Abu
		
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			who will He's the one who said to
		
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			me in Mecca what he said. When the
		
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			Prophet was crying over
		
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			the body of Abu Talib at the time
		
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			of death, Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah mocked him.
		
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			And now they're becoming Muslims. So it's like,
		
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			okay,
		
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			they can become Muslim, but this is
		
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			like, what do they expect here? What type
		
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			of reception are they expecting after all of
		
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			this pain? SubhanAllah, by the way, side note,
		
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			'Abdulla Abu Ubayyah
		
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			repented and would end up dying shahid in
		
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			the Battle of Ta'af.
		
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			SubhanAllah. So he actually dies a martyr even
		
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			though he was alongside Abu Jahl prompting the
		
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			kufr, trying to get Abu Ta'af to say
		
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			words of kufr at the time of his
		
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			death. Here you have Abu Sufyan, and Abu
		
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			Sufyan is still just like, I don't know
		
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			what to do.
		
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			So anyway,
		
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			al Abbas tells Abu Sufyan what happened. Abu
		
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			Sufyan says to him,
		
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			listen, can you intercede
		
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			further?
		
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			Can you talk to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam on my behalf? Can you make things
		
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			right with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
		
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			And he says to him, Who
		
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			are you going to leave me to? And
		
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			he says, Who is that? Al Abbas says,
		
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			Listen, it is what it is. I'm not
		
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			gonna say to the Prophet any more than
		
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			what's been said. But he said, what I
		
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			know of the Prophet
		
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			is that, look, let the time heal. It's
		
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			going to be okay as time goes on.
		
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			At this point,
		
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			he says
		
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			that, I went to Ali
		
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			Ali is his brother-in-law and his cousin. Remember,
		
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			this is a Hashami affair now.
		
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			Faqalali miflidarikh. And he said to me, you
		
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			know, very similar things that look it's
		
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			it is what it is,
		
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			and just give it time. The Prophet SAW
		
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			Allahu Alaihi Wasallam will forgive you, but don't
		
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			expect this like reception
		
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			after all that you did to the Messenger
		
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			of Allah without some level of
		
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			an acknowledgment.
		
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			Right? There has to be something here
		
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			after all of this.
		
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			As time goes on,
		
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			he says to Ali,
		
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			or he goes back to Abbas and he
		
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			says to him, Listen, if you can't soften
		
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			the heart of the Prophet towards me,
		
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			then at
		
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			least ask the Prophet or
		
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			restrain that man from denouncing me, like, see
		
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			if the Prophet
		
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			can make the companions calm down with me
		
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			as well, because the companions saw the way
		
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			the Prophet responded to him, and now they
		
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			all want a piece of him. Right? They
		
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			all kind of want to say something to
		
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			him. So the Prophet
		
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			gave that to
		
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			him, and the uncle of the Prophet SAWS-eleven,
		
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			Abu Bakr, anhu, ensured that, look, no one's
		
00:37:00 --> 00:37:02
			gonna harm you. This isn't about anyone harming
		
00:37:02 --> 00:37:03
			you or getting revenge on you.
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:06
			But time has to go on and there
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07
			has to be a level
		
00:37:08 --> 00:37:10
			of acknowledgement here, and there's going to be
		
00:37:10 --> 00:37:12
			some moments of forgiveness here. This is all
		
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			moving very quickly.
		
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			So he says, then the next day came.
		
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			So he says that the women of
		
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			Quraysh entered upon the Prophet seeking forgiveness and
		
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			amongst them was my wife and the Prophet
		
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			forgave them all. No problem whatsoever.
		
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			And he says, so I was hoping to
		
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			catch a sight of the Prophet
		
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			and to see if there was going to
		
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			be a little bit of a softening. So
		
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			basically, the way that he describes it, every
		
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			time I was in the presence of the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he softened a little
		
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			bit.
		
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			But he said that the pain was still
		
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			there,
		
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			like, it wasn't the same. He wasn't giving
		
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			me
		
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			that full,
		
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			that full look, that full,
		
00:38:01 --> 00:38:03
			you know, that full love that I was
		
00:38:03 --> 00:38:06
			expecting from him. So he says, describing his
		
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07
			own pain, he said, so at that point,
		
00:38:08 --> 00:38:10
			he said that I said to myself
		
00:38:11 --> 00:38:13
			that if it continues this way, I'm just
		
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			gonna take my son, Ja'far.
		
00:38:17 --> 00:38:19
			And I'm going to disappear from the Prophet
		
00:38:19 --> 00:38:21
			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and I'm going
		
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			to,
		
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			I'm just gonna go out in the desert
		
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			until I die of hunger and thirst.
		
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			Like, I'm just I'm gonna get out of
		
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			his face. I'm gonna remove myself from the
		
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			situation out of all the pain that I
		
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			caused to the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, if things don't change.
		
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			So then he says, finally, in the conversation
		
00:38:42 --> 00:38:44
			with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when the
		
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			women had said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, asked his forgiveness, and the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam forgave them,
		
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			said, I came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:38:51 --> 00:38:52
			Wasallam and
		
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			I
		
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			apologized to the Prophet
		
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			and I said, Ashadu Allah illa Allah wa
		
00:38:58 --> 00:38:59
			shadu anna Muhammad
		
00:39:00 --> 00:39:01
			So that was the first time the Prophet
		
00:39:01 --> 00:39:04
			actually heard the Shahadah from his mouth, right?
		
00:39:04 --> 00:39:08
			Like it was it's a little bit different
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:10
			now. The Prophet listens to him
		
00:39:11 --> 00:39:12
			and he says,
		
00:39:15 --> 00:39:16
			There's no blame on me, O Messenger of
		
00:39:16 --> 00:39:17
			Allah.
		
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			Prophet said, la tathribayaa Abu Sufyan. There's no
		
00:39:21 --> 00:39:23
			blame on you, O Abu Sufyan.
		
00:39:23 --> 00:39:24
			And the Prophet
		
00:39:24 --> 00:39:26
			told 'Arab Abu Nabi Talib
		
00:39:27 --> 00:39:31
			that, Go teach your cousin wudu and salah
		
00:39:31 --> 00:39:32
			and basically catch him up to speed on
		
00:39:32 --> 00:39:35
			his Islam. Go take care of your cousin.
		
00:39:35 --> 00:39:36
			So he said,
		
00:39:36 --> 00:39:39
			but I still didn't see the smile of
		
00:39:39 --> 00:39:40
			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he said,
		
00:39:40 --> 00:39:42
			I wanted so bad for the Prophet SallAllahu
		
00:39:42 --> 00:39:43
			Alaihi Wasallam to smile at me. He still
		
00:39:43 --> 00:39:44
			didn't smile at me. Now there is a
		
00:39:44 --> 00:39:45
			direct conversation.
		
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			You're forgiven.
		
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			Ali, go take care of him. But the
		
00:39:50 --> 00:39:52
			pain is clearly still there. Right?
		
00:39:53 --> 00:39:55
			So then he said, the day of the
		
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			Fatiha came,
		
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			and he said that I went close to
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			along with his family on the day of
		
00:40:01 --> 00:40:03
			Fatiha Mecca, the day of the conquest itself,
		
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			And he said that every time,
		
00:40:09 --> 00:40:10
			like
		
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			his sight towards me started to soften up
		
00:40:12 --> 00:40:14
			Salaizeam. Like you started to see that
		
00:40:15 --> 00:40:17
			the heart was was reopening back up to
		
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			me and some of those that childhood was
		
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			coming back and all that they had together,
		
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			it was getting
		
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			softer. But he says,
		
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			he said,
		
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			I was just hoping for the moment that
		
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			he'd smile at me. Like I was waiting
		
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			for the smile of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam, and I still didn't get it. And
		
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			I knew, SubhanAllah, again that I was grateful
		
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			just to be forgiven and to be in
		
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			the company of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			but I knew that it was going to
		
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			take time.
		
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			So he says
		
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			that after Fatiuh Makkah,
		
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			I came to the Prophet
		
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			and I said some poetry to him. SubhanAllah,
		
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			all those years his poetry was against the
		
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			Messenger of Allah
		
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			And he said,
		
00:41:03 --> 00:41:05
			He said that, By my life, I remember
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:07
			when I carried that banner
		
00:41:07 --> 00:41:10
			to give victory to the army of Allat
		
00:41:10 --> 00:41:10
			over
		
00:41:11 --> 00:41:11
			the army of
		
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			Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he says,
		
00:41:22 --> 00:41:24
			He said that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or
		
00:41:24 --> 00:41:27
			I could not guide myself until someone other
		
00:41:27 --> 00:41:28
			than me guided me
		
00:41:28 --> 00:41:30
			and took care of me
		
00:41:30 --> 00:41:31
			to the same person
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:34
			who I used to drive out with all
		
00:41:34 --> 00:41:35
			of my might.
		
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			And the Prophet said
		
00:41:39 --> 00:41:40
			to me,
		
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			Indeed, You drove me out with all of
		
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47
			Your might.
		
00:41:47 --> 00:41:49
			Like, SubhanAllah, You used all of that against
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:50
			me.
		
00:41:50 --> 00:41:52
			So the poem kind of fell flat, but
		
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			okay, you're forgiven. I get it. It's over.
		
00:41:55 --> 00:41:58
			Right? Let it go. You're a Muslim now.
		
00:41:58 --> 00:41:59
			You're one of the Sahaba,
		
00:41:59 --> 00:42:01
			but it's not like the old days yet.
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:03
			Then, subhanAllah, what happens,
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05
			her name comes.
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:07
			And he said, I wanted to prove to
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08
			the Messenger of Allah
		
00:42:09 --> 00:42:11
			that I'm with him now, that I'm back.
		
00:42:11 --> 00:42:13
			Right? I'm his I'm his brother, and I'm
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14
			back to him. And you can kinda hear
		
00:42:14 --> 00:42:17
			in his words, he's embarrassed about himself, and
		
00:42:17 --> 00:42:20
			he's he's also realizing, subhanAllah, the forgiveness of
		
00:42:20 --> 00:42:22
			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the fact
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:23
			that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not
		
00:42:23 --> 00:42:25
			exact any revenge on him.
		
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			So he said on the day of Hunayn,
		
00:42:27 --> 00:42:29
			he said when everything was falling apart and
		
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			people were fleeing and it got chaotic, because
		
00:42:31 --> 00:42:33
			remember, the Battle of Hunayn, there were a
		
00:42:33 --> 00:42:35
			bunch of traps. So the army of the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam got hit from all
		
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			different directions and it basically got divided into
		
00:42:39 --> 00:42:41
			multiple groups and only a few people around
		
00:42:41 --> 00:42:43
			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on that day.
		
00:42:43 --> 00:42:44
			Right?
		
00:42:44 --> 00:42:46
			One of them, some of the narrations, Abu
		
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			Sufyan ibn Haruf, and here now, Abu Sufyan
		
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			ibn Haruf.
		
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			And so when Hunayn happens, he says that,
		
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			I saw it being chaotic and I wanted
		
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			to show the Prophet
		
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			that I was serious this time, that I
		
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			was going to have his back the way
		
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			that I should have had his back
		
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			when he first announced his Islam, when he
		
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			first announced his prophethood.
		
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			So he said
		
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			that in the middle of the battle,
		
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			when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			was
		
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			on his animal and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam was, you know,
		
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			swinging his sword
		
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			and he said the Prophet was like a
		
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			towering mountain, like the Prophet did not flee
		
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			from the battlefield.
		
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			And he said, Al Abba
		
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			was holding the reins of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam mule and standing to his side.
		
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			He said, I went to the other side
		
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			of the animal of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam.
		
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			And I held the other side of the
		
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			reins, and I started to fight on behalf
		
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			of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the
		
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			middle of this battle, because remember they're all
		
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			covered up,
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says to Al
		
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			Abbas,
		
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			who is this man?
		
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			Who is this man that's like sticking to
		
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			it and who's fighting and who's
		
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			who's on the side of the Prophet
		
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			And then Abba says,
		
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			Abu Sufyan,
		
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			your brother Abu Sufyan.
		
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			And that's when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			finally
		
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			says, like
		
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			basically, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			you know, Welcome to my brother. May Allah
		
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			bless
		
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			my brother.
		
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			And he said, Go forth and Allah is
		
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			with you. And Abu Sufyan says that, I
		
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			fought alongside the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and
		
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			we fought all the way through the Battle
		
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			of Hunayn, and that's where there's an embrace.
		
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			Finally, an embrace between the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam and Abu Sufyan ibn Harith at that
		
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			moment.
		
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			And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says these
		
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			words to him that were extremely,
		
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			precious to him.
		
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			He said to him that, Arju anyakoona khala
		
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			fen min Hamza.
		
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			I hope now that he's a replacement for
		
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			me
		
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			for Hamzah, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu because there was
		
00:44:55 --> 00:44:57
			no person Hamzah, radiAllahu Anhu, was the closest
		
00:44:57 --> 00:44:59
			relative to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and
		
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			he was killed in Uhud.
		
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			And Hamzah
		
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			when
		
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			he he was also the foster brother of
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:07
			the Prophet When he died, it was extremely
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			painful to the Prophet So when the Prophet
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:11
			is embracing his brother, like finally he has
		
00:45:11 --> 00:45:13
			him back and it's actually him, he said,
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:14
			I hope that Allah
		
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			gifted me him in place of Hamza
		
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			for the pain that was caused to me
		
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			from the death of Hamza
		
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			And the Prophet
		
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			says
		
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			about him or you know,
		
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			He loved Abu Sufyan.
		
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			The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know, mentioned
		
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			to him or guaranteed him, Al Jannah.
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:39
			So that Abba said, Have you forgiven him,
		
00:45:39 --> 00:45:41
			You Rasool Allah? I said, I've forgiven him
		
00:45:41 --> 00:45:43
			and I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			grant him Al Jannah.
		
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			Then you start to see the next chapter
		
00:45:47 --> 00:45:48
			of the story.
		
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			So what's it like bringing this man back
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:54
			who is deeply
		
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			sorrowful for the pain that he caused the
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:56
			Prophet
		
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			and introducing him to a Madani society
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			of strangers that took on the Prophet
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:07
			in the midst of his great pain.
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:11
			The Prophet said, Abu Sufyanib al Harif,
		
00:46:11 --> 00:46:15
			sayyidu fityanih aljannah. The Prophet praised him, but
		
00:46:15 --> 00:46:16
			he didn't praise him because of who he
		
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			was before all that. You see, when you're
		
00:46:19 --> 00:46:19
			talking about
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:22
			a lot of those that embraced Islam
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:23
			in this
		
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			episode of Fatiha Mecca,
		
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			many of them were very average in their
		
00:46:27 --> 00:46:29
			practice of faith, like they weren't distinguished by
		
00:46:29 --> 00:46:31
			their practice of faith. Amongst them, by the
		
00:46:31 --> 00:46:32
			way, was Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, who we
		
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			talked about last week. Like you don't find
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:36
			narrations of Abu Sufyan bin Harb
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:39
			in Quran and in tahajjud and in salah
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:40
			and
		
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			you know dedicating himself to the Masjid. You
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:43
			got these tales,
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:45
			not these tales, you've got these stories of
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:46
			him now on the battlefield. Right? That's where
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:48
			Abu Sufyan was, Ibn Harb.
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:50
			But this man
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:52
			takes a different type of turn.
		
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			He wants to make up for all that
		
00:46:55 --> 00:46:55
			time
		
00:46:56 --> 00:46:57
			that he was an enemy to the Prophet
		
00:46:59 --> 00:47:00
			and what should have been
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			in the 1st place. So he comes back
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:03
			to Madinah,
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:06
			and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam now has
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:08
			completely opened up to him once again.
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:18
			Because they saw the pain of the Prophet,
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:20
			now the Sahaba
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:22
			are honoring him because they see the way
		
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			the Prophet, is honoring him and treating him
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:27
			like his brother once again. The Prophet SallAllahu
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:29
			Alaihi Wasallam assigns him a pension of a
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:30
			100
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:33
			wasks from Khaybar annually and a narration of
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:33
			30
		
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			shares
		
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			from it for Jumana,
		
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			radiAllahu Anhu, who would outlive him. So he
		
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			comes back into Medina and he's being integrated,
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44
			reintegrate into the society of Madinah
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:46
			as the brother of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:47:46 --> 00:47:48
			Wasallam, as a deep companion of the Prophet
		
00:47:48 --> 00:47:49
			SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, as someone beloved to the
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:51
			Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, who is
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:54
			brought to live near the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:54
			Wasallam,
		
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			and what's gonna happen to his life?
		
00:47:58 --> 00:48:01
			Abu Sufyan Al Harif, at that point,
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:02
			becomes
		
00:48:03 --> 00:48:03
			basically
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05
			a person who lives in the masjid
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:08
			for the rest of his life.
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:09
			SubhanAllah,
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:12
			a person who
		
00:48:12 --> 00:48:14
			falls in love with the Quran, so he
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16
			becomes distinguished by the Quran,
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:18
			starts to recite the Quran
		
00:48:19 --> 00:48:21
			day night, and he basically doesn't talk to
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:22
			anybody.
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:25
			Kind of becomes a hermit, comes to Madinah,
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			and imagines, SubhanAllah, suddenly you've got a man
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:29
			that looks like the Prophet who's walking to
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:30
			the Masjid,
		
00:48:31 --> 00:48:32
			and the narrations
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:33
			say
		
00:48:33 --> 00:48:34
			that,
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:43
			That he would stay in the Masjid, then
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:44
			he would pray even in the hot summer
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:47
			all the way until the latest time, and
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48
			then he would stay in the Masjid from
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:50
			Dhuhr al Asr, and he would pray and
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			he would pray, and he'd recite the Quran,
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			and his eyes welling with tears, and he
		
00:48:54 --> 00:48:55
			doesn't talk to anybody.
		
00:48:56 --> 00:48:57
			It's kind of comes in
		
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00
			and he was the first person in the
		
00:49:00 --> 00:49:02
			Masjid, the last person to leave it. And
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:04
			that's where the narration of Aisha
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:07
			comes. Aisha, the wife of the Prophet SallAllahu
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:08
			Alaihi Wasallam, who's not familiar with all that
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:09
			history,
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:11
			Right? She was too young. She wasn't around
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:14
			when all that was happening. She sees suddenly
		
00:49:14 --> 00:49:15
			this brother of the Prophet
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:19
			who's coming head down to the Masjid constantly
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:20
			reciting the Quran,
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:24
			constantly repenting to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:24
			Aisha
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:28
			is kind of astonished by him. And the
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:28
			Prophet
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:31
			says, Do you know who that is, O
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:32
			Aisha?
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:34
			She says, No, I don't.
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37
			And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam introduces
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:39
			him and says, That's Abu Sifyyan al Bilharf,
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:42
			ibn Ammi, that's my cousin.
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:46
			And he's the first person. He's telling Aisha,
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:48
			he's always the first person to enter the
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:49
			Masjid
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:51
			and he's always the last person to leave
		
00:49:51 --> 00:49:52
			the Masjid
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:55
			and his eyes never leave his sandals.
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:57
			That's how the Prophet
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:59
			explains this person to Aisha.
		
00:49:59 --> 00:50:02
			That's my brother of Usafi'an Al Halif. Khalas,
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:03
			that's it.
		
00:50:03 --> 00:50:04
			He
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:05
			had a long life
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			of hurting the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10
			now he just wants to make up for
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:12
			it, and he's immersed in his Ibadah.
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:14
			If you saw him walking around Madinah,
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:17
			he's always looking down. He's walking in the
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:20
			Masjid. He's praying. He's reading Quran. He's leaving
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:22
			the Masjid. And this man who had this
		
00:50:22 --> 00:50:24
			large personality and was a poet against the
		
00:50:24 --> 00:50:25
			Muslims
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:26
			to himself completely.
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:30
			And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:31
			loved him,
		
00:50:32 --> 00:50:35
			treated him with respect and honor, And of
		
00:50:35 --> 00:50:37
			course, the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
00:50:37 --> 00:50:39
			did not live long after,
		
00:50:40 --> 00:50:41
			that, you know,
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:42
			that time
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:45
			when he would come back from Fatiha Mecca.
		
00:50:46 --> 00:50:47
			And when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
00:50:48 --> 00:50:49
			passed away,
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:51
			I mean, you can imagine now the pain
		
00:50:51 --> 00:50:53
			of Abu Sufyanar al Harith knowing that he
		
00:50:53 --> 00:50:54
			missed out on
		
00:50:55 --> 00:50:56
			that bulk of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's
		
00:50:56 --> 00:50:58
			life in Islam. And he never had that
		
00:50:58 --> 00:51:00
			chance to really support the Prophet
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:02
			beyond the battle of
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:04
			Hunayn. And you can find some of
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:06
			the most beautiful poetry,
		
00:51:07 --> 00:51:10
			you know, from Abu Sufyan for the Prophet
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:11
			at the time of
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:12
			his death,
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:13
			he says,
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			It's just a beautiful
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:36
			saying that, you know, I spent my entire
		
00:51:36 --> 00:51:39
			night in grief, weeping over the greatest disaster,
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:41
			the greatest tragedy that ever hit the face
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			of the earth. The death
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46
			of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:48
			saddest night in history is the night that
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:48
			it was announced
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:51
			that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:52
			had passed away.
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:54
			So the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:55
			dies
		
00:51:55 --> 00:51:56
			and
		
00:51:57 --> 00:51:59
			all you have is this man now who's
		
00:51:59 --> 00:52:00
			coming to the Masjid, coming out of the
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:01
			Masjid,
		
00:52:01 --> 00:52:03
			maintaining this Ibadah
		
00:52:03 --> 00:52:05
			throughout the time of Abu Bakr as Siddiq
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			he maintains this lifestyle
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:11
			and then during the khilafa of Umar al
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:15
			Khattab he goes out to Hajj. And when
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:19
			he goes out to Hajj, the barber, as
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:20
			he was shaving his head,
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:23
			he struck what was like a cyst in
		
00:52:23 --> 00:52:25
			the head of Abu Sufyan al Haraf.
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:27
			So you know the blade hit it and
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:28
			it caused him an infection.
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:32
			So he basically gets sick from Hajj
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:34
			during the beginning of the khilaf of Umar
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:38
			and he comes back to Madinah, and eventually
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:40
			the sickness from the infection of his haircut
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:41
			in Mina
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:43
			is what's going to cause his death. And
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44
			that's why they actually would refer
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:47
			to him as a shahid, the very unique
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:48
			case of shahada.
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:50
			But here's one of the most unique stories
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52
			that you'll find from the companions of the
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:52
			Prophet
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:55
			When Abu Sufyan
		
00:52:55 --> 00:52:57
			felt like he was about to die,
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:02
			people saw him doing something very interesting.
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			He basically went to the batir, the graveyard
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:08
			next to the grave of the Prophet Sallallahu
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:10
			Alaihi Wasallam where the companions are buried,
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:12
			and he dug his own grave.
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15
			So he's the companion who dug his own
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:16
			grave.
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:18
			He dug his own grave, and he was
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:19
			still healthy enough to where it looked like
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:20
			he had a chance at recovery.
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:23
			But he went to the Baqir, and he
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:24
			dug his own grave,
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:26
			and people were surprised,
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:29
			like, what is it, right? What are you
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:29
			doing?
		
00:53:30 --> 00:53:31
			And he said,
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:40
			So, O Allah, I don't wanna live after
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:41
			the death
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:43
			of the Prophet and my brother any longer.
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:44
			Let me follow
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:48
			in their ranks. Let me join the Prophet
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:51
			and my brother. His brother Nofal had just
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:54
			passed away shortly before that. So basically now
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:56
			he's saying, at this point now, I just
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:57
			want to be with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			Right? And he went and he fashioned his
		
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			graves. How imagine walking into the Baqir and
		
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			seeing a Sahabi
		
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			digging his own grave and saying, I'm gonna
		
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			be buried here.
		
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			3 days later,
		
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			he's laying in his home,
		
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			and his family comes around him,
		
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			and his family is weeping.
		
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			And he says to them,
		
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			So don't cry over me because he said,
		
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			I swear by Allah that I have not
		
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			sinned from the day that I became a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			So you don't have to worry about me.
		
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			I'm okay, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			because I did not commit any wrong since
		
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			the day that I accepted Islam. And SubhanAllah,
		
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			indeed he died in Al Madinah
		
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			and was buried. And if you go to
		
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			the area,
		
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			of the family of the Prophet SAW, it's
		
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			actually the closest area of the Baqir to
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			SAW,
		
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			you'll find
		
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			the grave of Abu Sufyan ibn Harith is
		
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			within that section
		
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			of the closest relatives to the Messenger of
		
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			Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Omar Khattab
		
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			was the one who led his Salatul Janazah
		
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			And I can tell that a lot of
		
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			you are like,
		
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			how come we never heard of this man?
		
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			And what do we make of the response
		
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			of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to him
		
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			and his ending? SubhanAllah,
		
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			I want you to actually appreciate for a
		
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			moment
		
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			that when you look at the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			and you look at the mercy that was
		
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			in his heart and you look at the
		
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			way that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam dealt
		
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			with the different people in his own life,
		
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			that when you hear Allah
		
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			telling you that if you are harmed, then
		
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			know that those who came before you were
		
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			harmed, and we know how much it hurts
		
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			you
		
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			to hear them say about you what they
		
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			say, know that you will not be hurt
		
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			in the way that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam was hurt by Abu Sufyan al Hadith.
		
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			So that's one thing. Number 2, the fact
		
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			that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam still forgave
		
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			him. Number 3, that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam still,
		
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			Actually,
		
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			witnessed for him and guaranteed for him Aljannah
		
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			after all of that that he did to
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			Number 4,
		
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			the way that the man, subhanAllah,
		
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			dedicates his life
		
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			to the Masjid of the Prophet
		
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			to the Quran
		
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			in those last days and then dies in
		
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			that state of repentance.
		
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			It shows you, SubhanAllah, that there's the tragedy
		
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			of sibling rivalry that exists from Cain and
		
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			Abel to Yusuf and his brothers, and now
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			and a very close brother of his. And
		
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			it shows you that if it takes you
		
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			time to forgive someone, subhanAllah, after hurt, that
		
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			the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam also felt deep
		
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			hurt and deep pain
		
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			from his own brother.
		
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			But it also shows you the great reward
		
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			of that at the end of the day.
		
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			And this is, subhanAllah, a man,
		
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			Abu Sufyanam al Haraf radiAllahu ta'ala An, who
		
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			had a good ending and who died
		
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			in the way that he should have started
		
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			in that mission alongside the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. We ask Allah
		
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			to be pleased with him and to be
		
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			pleased with the companions
		
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			and to send his peace and blessings upon
		
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			our Messenger of Allah
		
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			and his family and his companions, Allahumma Ameen.
		
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			InshaAllah Ta'ala, next week, we're going to talk
		
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			about Hakim Nuhizam, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, another one
		
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			of those people that was close to the
		
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			Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam before Islam, but held
		
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			out and embraced Islam
		
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			at the very end.